New After school programme opens

We are delighted that our first after school programme has opened in Kerala!

We are so grateful for the foresight of Robin and his team for seeing the need and starting a new programme for the local children. The children will be tutored, play games, make new friends and be fed after school each day. This village is up in the Keralan hills surrounded by tea and spice plantations.

As is the case with many of these villages the parents work late into the night on the plantations and the children are often left to fend for themselves.

Isn’t it fantastic that the children now have such a fun and safe place to be!

Huge thanks to all of our Hope for Children supporters - you are transforming lives.

Many hands make light work

Huge thanks to our recent US visitors who took time out to help plant the new rice crop. Praise God for this land and the ability to grow rice for Hope Gardens.

Our process is that seeds are planted in our nursery and when they have grown sufficiently these plantings are taken, separated and replant in the main fields. These plants now have room to grow.

It was fantastic to be part of the planting team and experience the hard work that goes into farming our own rice crop. This is such a positive sustainable initiative which we are so proud to support.

Thank you Hal, Kristin and Bob for help plant our rice crop.

Great News!

We have ploughed, nurtured and blessed our paddy field and now it is ready to harvest! We harvested 6 tonnes of paddy and now it is drying in our dining halls! Find out more about our harvest here